This week on New Tracks On the Trail: • Former Soldier Thread singer Patricia Lynn and longtime Austin studio junkie Dwight Baker have teamed up again for their third studio release. The band’s called The Wind + The Wave, the album’s called Human Beings Let You Down, and the newest single will be featured on […]

We owe Alanya a modest “mahalo.” Thanks to her obscure selection for this week’s edition of Vinally Friday, we actually escaped the frigidity outside for a moment and actually warmed our toes to an pit fire on the beaches of Hawaii. Okay, so maybe our imagination got a little carried away. But when a quick […]

Somewhere between the 1970 Woodstock compilation and Bob Dylan’s Triplicate from earlier this year, the critics had to have realized the artists were no longer listening. To be sure, we’re not entirely clear they were ever all that engaged in the first place. But since that time, dozens of your favorite artists have released triple-albums […]

It was quite the conundrum: He could rock out to a crowd 80,000 deep in Detroit one night, but less than a thousand would turn out in Chicago the next. Of course, this was long before the Internet and even longer before social media – during a time when word-of-mouth spread even faster than even […]

Why is it the most passionate music seems to emanate from fingertips and lips of the dying? We saw it with Warren Zevon’s Grammy-winning final album, The Wind, released just two weeks before he succumbed to mesothelioma in 2003 and again last year with David Bowie’s multi-Grammy-winning Black Star, which dropped just two days before […]